High-speed chase ends in Simpsonville creek

6:34 PM,
Jan. 28, 2013

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The Courier-Journal

A 28-year-old Jeffersontown man was arrested Friday after police said he took officers on a high-speed chase that ended when he drove through a residential yard and crashed into a creek.

The chase started on the 1600 block of South Hurstbourne Parkway at about 4:17 p.m. when Jeffersontown police made a traffic stop on Robert C. Lawson, a Jeffersontown Police report said. Lawson told officers that he didn't have a driver's license on him and when he was told to get out of his vehicle he sped off, weaving through heavy traffic on South Hurstbourne on his way to Interstate 64 eastbound, the report ...